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From: token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: I just installed FreeBSD 2.1.6, need help
Date: 17 Jan 1997 09:58:08 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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David A. Bader (dbader@umiacs.umd.edu) wrote:

: Also, when I made myself a user, I forgot to add group 0 to me so I
: could 'su root' later... How do I add a group to a user?

You edit /etc/group and add the user's loginname to the list on the
line for the group "wheel".

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